Brewsters Beer Garden

Brewsters Beer Garden transformed a sketchy parking lot into an attraction – a dining garden for people of all ages. By re-interpreting the meaning of Main Street, building small, and creating usable open space, Brewsters brings life to this neglected but magical river and industrial area.

Three concepts drove the location of the main building – visually extend the park across the street, block the prevailing wind, and frame the full view of Dairymen’s Feed, the town’s tallest structure and icon.

The site was the home of the Petaluma Incubator Factory and the remaining historic walls define the south and north edges of the original building. The dining structure is set inside these walls. With the top of grade 12 feet below the sidewalk, the roof of the main building is level with the sidewalk, which resolved naturally as a living roof.